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Langston Hughes was a talented writer, definitely one of the best poets of his time. ... Langston Hughes spent the majority of his adolescence roaming from place to place, seeing the world from many different locations, including Illinois, Ohio, Mexico, and most importantly, Harlem. In the early twenties, Hughes, whom had been studying at Columbia University, abandoned his studies there in favor of participating in the more entertaining jazz and blues activities of the nearby city. ... Throughout his poetry, Langston Hughes relies heavily on many of these African American historical references, their musical traditions, and the African American way of life.
Langston Hughes frequently incorporates the rhythms and styles of African-American music into his poetry. ... The jazz and blues clubs in Harlem that he frequented provided a forum for emerging black writers who wrote to raise the consciousness of the Negro people and install pride in their African heritage through music, and his devotion to the advancement of the music led him to write poems which fused both jazz and blues with the traditional verse in his first two books; however, many readers of the later poems of Langston Hughes find jazz music rhythms floating through all of his poetry, giving it the certain musical quality that made it possible to be read in Harlem jazz clubs (Jackson 19, Tracy 33). Many of Langston Hughes’ poems contain quick transitions in both tempo and mood. ... Hughes often writes in free verse, as it gives him an ability to end each line with blunt, sharp words for a more emotional effect (O’Daniel 25). ... Hughes often wrote children books such as “Sweet and Sour” that contained simple taste of the blues, as all its twenty-six poems are very brief, written mainly in couplets. ...
Langston Hughes wrote many of his poems incorporating what the lifestyle of African Americans was like in the early days of the twentieth century, although the emotions behind every poem are universal to all cultures and ethnic groups (Jackson 8).
Approximate Word count = 1476
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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